Definition of Reactionism

1. Noun. The political orientation of reactionaries.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Reactionism

reaction of partial identity
reaction propulsion
reaction quotient
reaction save
reaction time
reaction turbine
reaction turbines
reaction vessel
reaction vessels
reactional
reactionaries
reactionarily
reactionary
reactionaryism
reactionaryisms
reactionism (current term)
reactionist
reactionists
reactionless
reactions
reactivable
reactivatable
reactivate
reactivated
reactivates
reactivating
reactivation
reactivations
reactivator
reactivators

Literary usage of Reactionism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Idola Theatri: A Criticism of Oxford Thought and Thinkers from the by Henry Cecil Sturt (1906)
"There is a good deal to be said, too, for the practical tendency of Hegel, which may be described as an enlightened reactionism. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1906)
"Its relation to the motor activities of the organism forms, therefore, a second natural meeting place for reactionism and the analytic and structural types ..."

3. Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism: Parcham and Khalq by Anthony Arnold (1983)
"Feudal reactionism, the brokers of imperialism, and international ... Therefore, imperialist and feudalist reactionism mobilized all of their power and took ..."

4. Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1906)
"that we blindly opposed the German bourgeoisie to the advantage of political reactionism and repelled and terrorized it so much that in its alarm it took ..."

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